Piercing Pens

A TXTPower forum member, who’s obviously interested in anagrams, posted this:

“Kapag kinarambola mo ang pangalan GLORIA may mabubuo kang salita at ito : GO LIAR”

Meanwhile, below is a rehashed George W. Bush joke sent to me by a friend. Insted of Bush, the new “bida” is Gloria: (more…)

The PCIJ Blog yesterday featured an interesting addendum to the Hello Garci: the voice believed to be that of the President muttering “Namfrel does not tally…pero yun nga, yung dagdag, yung dagdag” in one of her phone conversations with Garci.

What could that “dagdag” be?

Here’s a link to PCIJ’s MP3 file of the “dagdag” conversation.

Police arrested without warrant this morning an organizer for the leftist Bayan Muna party-list organization, according to the office of Rep. Joel Virador.

Jesi Carandang was in a jeep with residents of Onyx in Sta. Ana, Manila to join the rally in Ayala when he was arrested. No case was filed against him but he was detained at Dagonoy Precint 1 in Onyx, Sta. Ana. He was only released when Virador insisted that the arrest has no basis. Virador described the incident as a harassment of anti-Arroyo protest organizers.

Yesterday, we were expecting a “Gloria Resign” call from the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP). But while they asked the Arroyo to think things over, they did not join Cory Aquino, the opposition, the Makati Business Club, and the Left, as well as the netizens in their call for Arroyo to step down.

The biggest issue they had to speak about was Mrs. Arroyo’s alleged rigging of the results of last year’s presidential election. In the past, the CBCP strongly condemned election fraud. Its statement after the 1986 snap elections –which was heavily manipulated by the Marcos administration–said:

According to moral principles, a government that assumes or retains power through fraudulent means has no moral basis. For such an access to power is tantamount to a forcible seizure and cannot command the allegiance of the citizenry. The most we can say then, about such a government, is that it is a government in possession of power. But admitting that, we hasten to add: Because of that very fact, that same government itself has the obligation to right the wrong it is founded on. It must respect the mandate of the people. This is precondition for any reconciliation.

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Arroyo must be jumping with joy now. The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines stated it does not demand Arroyo’s resignation and wants the constitutional process to prevail.